This year, the Forum was also marked by the active participation of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation and Academy Award winner, Forest Whitaker, and United Nations Youth Champion and star of High School Musical, Monique Coleman.
Those who successfully implement their action plans will receive the official title of UNESCO Youth Peace Ambassador.
He was eventually replaced by Sargent Shriver, the former director of the Peace Corps and ambassador to France under Johnson and Nixon.
More recently, in 2009, with Elias Sanbar, Palestinian writer and Ambassador of Palestine to UNESCO, he created the Instruments for Peace Foundation, which offers music education for young Israelis and Palestinians.
In Khartoum today, Mr. Brennan and Sudan Special Envoy Ambassador Princeton Lyman met with Sudanese government officials to discuss implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
WHITEHOUSE: Statement by the Press Secretary on Travel by John Brennan
Ambassador Bolton believes passionately in the goals of the United Nations Charter, to advance peace and liberty and human rights.
Israel's deputy ambassador in London said on Wednesday that such a move would not help prospects of peace in the region and would harm both Israeli and Palestinian workers.
The celebrations for World Arabic Language Day continued with a ceremony to nominate Mr Metin Arditi as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his work with young Israeli and Palestinian musicians through his Instruments for Peace Foundation.
The opening addresses were followed by a debate between prominent intellectuals and peace advocates -- including UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Forest Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, Lakshmi Puri, Wole Soyinka, Arjun Appadurai, Jeffrey Sachs, as well as Nasser David Khalili.
On Friday, representatives of the civilian opposition groups in DR Congo are to meet President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa "as part of the ongoing dialogue to find peace, " according to South Africa's ambassador to DR Congo.
Description This biennial Prize, established through the generous donation of the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Madanjeet Singh , Indian artist, writer and diplomat, honors his lifelong commitment to the cause of peace and tolerance.
UNESCO: Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence 2009
But the ambassador told me, in an interview for Stormont Today, that he is concentrating on seeking to export the lessons of peace, rather than what he views as a sad episode a decade ago.
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